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25 Cards in this Set
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What was the first military-style police force in Canada? |
Royal Newfoundland Mounted Constabulary |
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An important development in policing was the movement – starting in the 1960s and 1970s, and becoming mainstream by the 1980s and 1990s – away from ________ policing and toward ________ policing. |
Incident-oriented / preventive |
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In Canada, police jurisdiction can vary in which way(s)? |
By activity AND geography |
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Which Act states which level of government had jurisdiction over the different areas of law enforcement |
The Constitution Act |
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About when did police psychology begin? |
1960s |
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Who is considered the father of police psychology in the United States? |
Martin Reiser |
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In which general domain does training law enforcement personnel in decision making belong? |
The operational domain |
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In which general domain does applicant screening of law enforcement personnel belong? |
The assessment domain |
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The term KSAOs refers to which of the following aspects required to perform well as a law enforcement officer? |
Knowledge, skills, abilities, and other personal characteristics |
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Which of the following terms refers to the process of identifying the relevant KSAOs required for various positions within a law enforcement agency? |
Job analysis |
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Based on research cited in your textbook, which group of police officers is most likely to engage in improper use of force? |
Young and inexperienced |
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What is one of the main focuses of operations-related education and training? |
Improving police decision making |
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Bennell, Jones, and Corey (2007) discussed the application of cognitive load theory to training police officers. They say it may be useful to help trainees develop relevant schemas, cognitive structures that can be used to organize new information into meaningful concepts. According to cognitive load theory, these schemas are an example of: |
Germane cognitive load |
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________________ reflects the inherent complexity of the information trainees are learning while _____________ is due to unnecessary demands placed on the mental information processing resources of trainees due to the learning materials and instructions methods used by instructors. |
Intrinsic cognitive load; extrinsic cognitive load |
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This is a common method of training police officers in the use of force. |
Computer based simulators |
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The "freeze" technique is an example of what? |
Situational awareness training |
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According to Pinizzotto and Finkel (1990), criminal profiling is essentially a process by which investigators move from the ____ of a crime to understand the _____ and, ultimately, the _____. |
“What?” / “Why?” / “Who?” |
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When the offence includes rare or unusual behaviour and when the offender's motives changer over time, which approach to profiling is particularly helpful? |
Deductive analysis |
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When offence-related behaviours are common and stable, which approach to profiling in particularly helpful? |
Inductive analysis |
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Criminal profiling techniques that infer a perpetrator's characteristics from knowledge of general patterns of criminal behaviour are known as __________________ techniques. |
Inductive analytic |
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Criminal profiling techniques that infer a perpetrator’s characteristics from knowledge of the crime scene and a heavy emphasis on the mediating role of motive are known as __________ techniques. |
Deductive analytic |
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Critical of the FBI’s approach to criminal profiling, Canter developed the _______________ approach in the 1990s. |
Investigative psychology |
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The underlying general principle of criminal profiling requires investigators to make ____________ about the identity of the perpetrator. |
Inferences |
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The first systematic approach to profiling was ________________, developed by the FBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit in the 1970s and 1980s. |
Criminal investigative analysis |
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_________________ is a strongly deductive approach where profilers make rational inferences about the personal characteristics of perpetrators based directly on the facts of the case at hand, without reference to other offenders. |
Behavioural evidence analysis |
